Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers,
cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as
wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They
came from varied backgrounds - some grew up in slavery, while free
blacks often got their start in Texas and Mexico. Most who joined
the long trail drives were men, but black women also rode and
worked on western ranches and farms. The first overview of the
subject in more than fifty years, Black Cowboys in the American
West surveys the life and work of these cattle drivers from the
years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth
century. Including both classic, previously published articles and
exciting new research, this collection also features select
accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films.
Arranged in three sections - ""Cowboys on the Range,"" ""Performing
Cowboys,"" and ""Outriders of the Black Cowboys"" - the thirteen
chapters illuminate the great diversity of the black cowboy
experience. Like all ranch hands and riders, African American
cowboys lived hard, dangerous lives. But black drovers were
expected to do the roughest, most dangerous work - and to do it
without complaint. They faced discrimination out west, albeit less
than in the South, which many had left in search of autonomy and
freedom. As cowboys, they could escape the brutal violence visited
on African Americans in many southern communities and northern
cities. Black cowhands remain an integral part of life in the West,
the descendants of African Americans who ventured west and helped
settle and establish black communities. This long-overdue
examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black cowboys
ensures that they, and their many stories and experiences, will
continue to be known and told.
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